From 9f3468dcfc92fca43ac105204427d03c863b4b4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 08:17:48 -0400
Subject: Better describe why this library exists. Refs #5

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 docs/index.rst | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

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diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
index 1d8ffda6..a061b3e7 100644
--- a/docs/index.rst
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -8,6 +8,19 @@ Welcome to ``cryptography``
 ``cryptography`` is a Python library which exposes cryptographic primitives and
 recipes.
 
+Why a new crypto library for Python?
+------------------------------------
+
+We wanted to address a few issues with existing cryptography libraries in
+Python:
+
+* Lack of PyPy support
+* Lack of maintenance
+* Use poor implementations of algorithms (i.e. ones with known side-channel
+  attacks)
+* Lack of high level, "Cryptography for humans", APIs
+
+
 Contents:
 
 .. toctree::
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